Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zombie's cucumber

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.97 in modern English

Syllables: zom-bie's cu-cum-ber
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), as used in Haiti.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"After the baptism, or sometimes the next day, he or she is made to eat a paste containing a strong dose of a potent psychoactive drug, the zombi's cucumber, which brings on a state of disorientation and amnesia."
"“Your soul will answer, you see. And they'll feed you the zombie's cucumber. You ain't got no choice but to eat it.”"
"It seemed to him that he was […] surrendering all agency and becoming hers to command, as if she were a Haitian bokor and he at lunch at Bergdorf Goodman had been administered the so-called zombie's cucumber which confused his thought processes and made him her slave for life."

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

zombi's cucumber (alternative)

Questions

What does zombie's cucumber mean?: Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), as used in Haiti.

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